17 Crown Drive, Malkins Bank, Sandbach, CW11 4AR

17 Crown Drive is an end-of-terrace house in Malkins Bank, Sandbach, Sandbach (CW11 4AR). It has a recorded floor area of 81 m² (around 872 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2014) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 81 m² it's 21.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (103 m² median across 13 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £219,000 sits 169.8% above the 2003 sale of £81,165. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£93/sq ft) was about 39.6% below the postcode norm.